Top 10 Tuesday: Top Ten New-To-Me Favorite Authors I Read For The First Time In 2015

Here are 10 authors I read for the first time that are now on my “awesome” list. These are in no particular order…

Victoria Aveyard- When I first Red Queen, it immediately made it to my favorites list. I loved EVERYTHING about this book. The storyline, the imagery, the romance, the fact that it’s clean, the way it pulled on my heartstrings and surprised me with it’s twists and turns. This is her debut novel and I so look forward to more books by her. I can’t wait to see where this series goes and what else she has in-store for us as readers.Full Review Here…

Kristen Simmons– This was just a great introduction to Kristen Simmons, this book was an adventure with a really GREAT strong-female protagonist. I just loved her writing with this story. The world building was fabulous with a crazy storyline that had me interested when I read the synopsis. I think I enjoyed most was the main character and her brutal-ness with her and the story. I look forward to more from this author. And I believe this is a stand alone which actually shocks me since I thought it left you hanging. huh. maybe that is just me.Full Review Here…

Cathrine Doyle- I am so in love with this story! I believe this also is her debut novel and I just fell in love with the idea of this story. I really enjoyed the five brothers of this family that moves in and their wide range of differences in personality and character. I felt the author did a GREAT job with keeping them completely separate during the whole book. Plus the major shocker and twist of this story-completely floored me. I am DYING for book two and for more from this author.Full Review Here…

Sharon Cameron- She had me at “Rook” I mean LOOK at this cover! Aren’t you intrigued? Seriously. PLUS it’s based off of one of my favorite classics- The Scarlet Pimpernel. I was floored with the twist and turns of this story. I kept second guessing myself with pointing the fingers to every character who I thought was the “bad guy” and when all was reveled…whoa. didn’t see it coming. I loved that she took characteristics from one character and multiplied it into different characters. Just well done.Full Review Here…

Sabaa Tahir- Okay, I kept putting this book off because I was concerned it might be “over hyped.” Well, after I read a review from a friend I decided I’d pick it up. It did not disappoint. The brutal-ness of this story was what kept me so involved in the story. I like books that aren’t all “light and fluffy” I like books that make me cringe and this book had that with an amazing story and a romance that was so sweet. This author totally caught my attention with this one.Full Review Here…

Renee Ahdieh– I picked up this book when I saw how many other AUTHORS I follow on social media read and loved this book. How could I not be intrigued by it. And so I picked it up without reading the synopsis and only by the fact that so many of these other authors had read it. It’s a retelling of A 1,001 Nights! HELLO! And boy did this author capture the story and completely make it her own. An adventure with swoon worthy romance that totally had my heart racing!Full Review Here…

Kate Breslin– I read this book for my bookclub and I fell in love. I LOVE historical fiction especially about WWII, I find it fascinating. Taking the biblical story of Esther and intertwining it with actual events of the holocaust was simply phenomenal. Why hadn’t someone thought of this before? Everything about this book was amazing, simply amazing.Full Review Here…

Naomi Novik– I had never heard of this author or book, but when I took to social media for a book recommendation, someone recommended this one! I hadn’t realized it had just come out, I had no idea it was out there and THANK YOU to whomever it was that recommended it. This is a very VERY loosely retelling of Beauty and the Beast. You just can’t really do wrong with retellings, and this one AGAIN captured the very essence of the original idea of the story and created something of her own. I LOVED this story and look forward to more from this author.Full Review Here…

Leigh Bardugo– I had these books on my shelf for a long time. I kept hearing about them and gambled and decided to wait till they were all out and with each book birth I bought it and waited. But life and other books got in the way till FINALLY I got to them. WHOA. What an amazing world she created. Makes me wonder why I waited so long to get to them! However I will admit that I have never been so disappointed with how the author decided to end the romance. Boo. I’m still bugged by it. But I loved everything else which makes me keep an eye on this author forever now on.

Robin LaFevers- Another trilogy I had on my self that I just took too long to getting to. Seriously. I loved that each book was it’s own story of someone that had a part to play in the overall scheme of things. My favorite of the trilogy will have to be Grave Mercy I just loved that one the best.Full Review Here…